86 SAPINDACEAE. | Mahoe. 
or single, terminal and 4—-8‘ long with the lowest bracts foliaceous, the 
branches alternate and patent, the pedicels 1”, minutely bracteolate about 
the middle. Sepals subequal, orbicular, conchoid , 11/2’, coriaceous, with 
scarious margins, tomentose, slightly connate at the base. Petals 5, little 
longer, equal, hyaline, pubescent and ciliate. Stamens 8, inserted on the 
thick margin of a pentagonal glabrous disk, 1”, the short subulate 
filaments villous. Ovary glabrous, 3—2-lobed. Stigma subsessile, its lobes 
broad, rounded but coherent. Cocci either 2, connate in the lowest third 
or fourth and divaricate above, or oftener a single one with the rudiments 
of 1 or 2 abortive ones at the base, the single coccus obovoid, 15“ >< 10”. 
Pericarp leathery, shining; endocarp pergameneous, pale, villous in the 
immature state. Seed obovoid, 10” x 6”, with a black ru rugose osseous 
testa, erect, with a broad iduitate’ father carunculate base, the hilum 
next the chalaza. Emb curved, the thick fleshy (united?) cotyledons 
acccumbent to the short Adiadles radicle and separated from it by a 
duplicature of the endopleura only. — Celastrinea ? Wawra, in Flora, 
ir = Al. 
valleys of Makaha and Makaleha of the Kaala range; very rare in the main 
range (aatn we Wait Asp Is conspicuous from a distance by its pale foliage. Nat, 
nam «Atlu» and «Katt 
8 v Leaves narrowing at the base and gradually running into 
a ane bis a 3—4", elliptico-oblong, often somewhat obtuse and 
mucronate. 
ley id Niu 
A species rem sant ble in the genus for the simple leaves, which never show an 
jodhekaon « of division, and for the position of the stamens on the disk. The thickened 
base of th as a caruncle, 
t le v 
knoblets which represent the aborted c carpels. The fruit-flesh is ar) bash prticonta and 
orms a strong lather when beaten with water, even in small quantiti 
3. MAHOE, gen. noy.? 
Molokai on the pali o f Kalaupapa and in Oahu on theS. W. slope of Mt. _— 
ag branch of ual rows a tree, 20—30 ft. high, 
«Mahoe», of which only an old inflorescence with fru 
ected. Tis 1 
it of the antecedent year h 
coll eaves are alternate, exstipulate, abruptly pinnate with 2— i op) 
leaflets, all of size; the rhach m 6— g, petiolate in the lower third, 
the 3—5‘, on petioles la—1", on inate, entire, rounded or 
cont at the base, glabrous or sligh omentose underneath, chartaceous, wit 
straight, parallel, very prominent v les terminal axillary or lateral, 4—5’ 
long, opty t ah ls 2”. Fruit a globose indehiscent coccus, 
€ rudiment of an abortive one along its side and the t 
of the style right above it. , Tather corky she pice tel that of a litshi and 
is covered with us areolate rugosities which, probably on account of age, 
mostly cracked alon ridges. A dar 
_ Of the single ascending seed, which lies loose ose in the cavity. The seed is covered at its 
